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Huge increase in same-sex couples adopting is good news

In 2022, more than one in six (540 out of 2,950) adoptions in England were granted to same-sex couples – the “greatest proportion on record”, according to New Family Social, a charity that analysed data from the Department of Education…

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Study: Men’s DIY way to cut down on the risk of prostate cancer

Attention men! Science says you should be looking out for your health and that includes masturbating at least 21 times a month. No really, we’re serious, according to scientific research published by European Urology (who knew such a publication existed?)…

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How common is trans treatment regret, detransitioning?

Many states have enacted or contemplated limits or outright bans on transgender medical treatment, with conservative U.S. lawmakers saying they are worried about young people later regretting irreversible body-altering treatment…

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Before Drag Race, gay slang came out of this classic movie

You may have never seen Paris Is Burning, but I’m willing to bet that your lexicon is shaped by it. Words like “shade,” “realness,” “over,” “work,” and “reading” have become popular in contemporary queer culture, and while you may credit…

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Alaska says it’s now legal to discriminate against LGBT people

In June 2020, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that workplace discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity was illegal, Alaska quickly moved to follow suit. It published new guidelines in 2021 saying Alaska’s LGBTQ protections…

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Call for trans people to be ‘eradicated’ gets big cheers at CPAC

Thousands of conservatives, including prominent Republican lawmakers and presidential hopefuls, flocked to a suburban Washington, D.C., convention center this week to discuss children’s genitals. They were there for the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the preeminent annual gathering of…